This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
conservation scientists are dismayed at the proposed cuts to uk 's biodiversity programme. An as yet unpublished internal review by the department of environment ( doe ) recommends the scaling down of the programme and also reduce its bird conservation activities. Critics argue that doe has worked rather slowly on …
lasers, like integrated circuits, are now an important part of many devices and techniques. Their unique properties like coherence and their non-dispersive nature help them play a crucial role in research in areas like quantum mechanics and communications. N Tessler and his colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, uk …
A study conducted for the department of the environment in the UK shows that the introduction of catalytic converters has been accompanied by a sudden and unexpected rise in concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, one of the most dangerous components of urban smog. This report comes as a surprise to many …
science has taken a knocking. Thrifty funds and a messy peer review structure, among others, have served to forecast a gloomy future for science in the coming millennium, according to a group of us and uk scientists who met in Washington recently. "The crisis of funding is real. Science has …
Joan Hibberd of Harley Street, London claims that brewed tea can be used to cure cold sores caused due to herpes infection. Tea when applied on to the sores helps fast recovery and the recurrence rate is also low. A very easy way of doing it is to boil the …
The European Court of Justice ruled recently that economic requirements need not be considered while allocating and defining the boundaries of an environmental special protection area. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( rspb ), uk , had challenged the UK environment secretary's decision to designate the Medway …
Equipment stolen or mislaid is a constant cause for heartburn in large organisations. Newmark Tech nology, a UK-based security company, has now designed a radio tagging system to help companies keep track of computers and other valuable equipment. The system automatically tracks the tagged assets at distances up to 100 …
odours produced by plants can repel crop pests and invite insects' enemies. Researcher John Pickett of uk 's leading arable crop research centre at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire is developing perfumes that work as insecticides. Picketts' scents are produced by plants themselves to keep off unwanted pests ( New Scientist , …
milking machines can now have a system to detect whether a cow has developed mastitis (inflammation of udders) or not. The system can detect early signs of mastitis much before the painful inflammation develops, by monitoring the electrical conductivity of milk as it passes the milking machine. The infected cells …
Users of digital mobile phones may soon be able to send faxes directly from their handsets. Vodafone of the UK is carrying out trials of a service that would allow its subscribers to use the short message service facility to compose faxes. The message can be up to 160 characters-long …
Wood can now be produced from waste. The UK's Save Wood Products Limited has come up with a product called durawood that combines the properties of wood and plastic. Derived from recycled polystyrene packaging waste, the product bears the aesthetic and physical properties of wood and the durability of plastic. …
it is showdown time once again in Europe as uk channelises efforts towards reneging its promise of culling more than 125,000 cattle heads, touted as the only measure to reduce the risk of spreading the mad cow disease. Seeking another eu review on the whole beef episode, it has at …
Branching outThe Tree of Life (TOL) is being rated as the most worthwhile thing on the web by biologists. Planted by the Maddison brothers of the University of Arizona, US, on the World Wide Web, the TOL is growing fast and far to reach institutions around the globe. The tree …
it will be a test of technology and human endurance . T wo British cyclists will appear at the air show at Farnborough, uk , this month in an attempt to set a world speed record on a tandem built from stealth-fighter materials. They believe their bike is capable of …
for the millions suffering from tuberculosis, especially in the Third World countries, the development of a new vaccine offers a glimmer of hope. Scientists at the Medical Research Council, uk, have reported success in preventing mice in laboratory tests from falling prey to the tuberculosis bacterium. This could be the …
researchers at the Long Ashton Agricultural Research Station near Bristol in southwest uk, are combining genetic engineering and largescale field experiments to find ways by which to reduce the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers. Cutting down on the use of such chemicals will help protect the environment and also …
